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Period 2010-01-01 to 2010-01-14

Introduction

Distributions

SHR-Logo.png SHR

SHR is a community driven GNU/Linux distribution for smartphones and is the most popular Operating System for the Freerunner. It has not made a stable release yet, but enjoys continuous development, and this is an update on all the great work that has been done recently. Unstable and testing images are available for both the Freerunner, and Neo 1973. A list of notable updates:

    A substantial FSO upgrade is hitting SHR. The reimplementation of FSO API's in Vala is progressing, and is providing significant improvements in speed. Specifically, SHR-U now features fsodeviced, fsousaged and fsonetworkd. The upgrade also introduces a more elegant system of separate configuration files for each daemon in etc/freesmartphone/*.
      Images are now available for ubifs, in addition to jffs and ext. ubifs promises improved performance, as well as smarter logic of uSD wear.
        The discussion about faster kernels is also affecting SHR; (MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE) is already pushed in. Experimental kernels (2.6.29-rc3-drm, 2.6.31, 2.6.32) are available for testing at: http://build.shr-project.org/tests/mrmoku/kms/images/om-gta02/


        Codename: 'SHR'
        Homepage: http://shr-project.org
        Image: buildhost

        Hardware Works
        Neo 1973 yes
        FreeRunner yes
        GTA04 ?
        HTC-Dream yes
        Other yes


        Applications

        New Applications

        Browser-c c.png Elm-Browser 1.0_r0.4

        This is an initial release of a very fast, finger friendly webkit-efl / elementary based browser.

        • finger scrolling
        • double-click to zoom in
        • triple click to zoom out (not working as of now - help needed)
        • layout optimised for max viewing space


        Homepage: http://elm-browser.googlecode.com
        Package: browser_1.0-r0.4_armv4t.ipk
        Tested on: SHR-Unstable


        Rtmom.png rtmom 0.1

        rtmom is a Python client for RememberTheMilk. It is based on Elementary.

        • Currently, rtmom is more or less read-only:
          • you can download and display your tasks and
          • you may mark a task as complete
          • no editing or creating of tasks yet implemented
        • Check wiki for installation and usage.


        Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rtmom
        Package: rtmom
        Tested on: SHR-Testing


        System boot.png Openmokontrol 0.1

        Openmokontrol is a CLI-controlled application for the Freerunner to send input events to a remote X11 server caused by accelerometer events, well usable for games.


        Homepage: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/openmokontrol
        Package: Openmokontrol
        Tested on: SHR-Unstable,Hackable:1


        Qcurrency.png QCurrency 0.1

        Christian Rüb developed QCurrency. It is a simple currency calculator, with save exchange rate capability.


        Homepage: http://git.senfdax.de/?p=qcurrency;a=summary
        Package: qcurrency
        Tested on: SHR


        MKPRN v0.2.png MKPRN 0.3

        MKPRN is a Reverse Polish Notation calculator. Currently it is in early stage of development. Suggestions and feature requests are welcome.


        Homepage: http://glitch.tl/mkrpn.html
        Package: http://opkg.glitch.tl/mkrpn_0.2_arm.ipk mkprn]
        Tested on: ?


        System boot.png qspectemu

        Radek Polak have just finished porting of Miklos Szeredi's spectemu - A Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for Linux/UNIX, to Qt on Freerunner. It's now in QtMoko package feed if you want to try it or you can compile from sources for your favourite distro. The main work was port to Qt, possibility to use touchscreen and creating GUI for loading/saving snapshots and creating mouse/touchscreen bindings. For QtMoko you will need v17 kernel to get decent speed. Emulator can now do following:

        • download my favourite games from internet
        • load/save snapshot
        • define custom on screen locations for spectrum keys
        • rotate, qvga
        • vibrate to notice if pressed border location of two keys
        • use virtual keyboard for input (longer press requited for some games)
        • autocorrect on screen key location during game playing


        Homepage: http://activationrecord.net/radekp/qspectemu/
        Package: QSpectemu binares are included in QtMoko default package feed, sources are in GIT repository.
        Tested on: QtMoko


        System boot.png qspectemu 0.0.1

        Exampleapp 0.0.1 is an application to do some stuff..


        Homepage: http://wiki.openmoko.org/
        Package: [http:// www.some.srv/path_to/Exampleapp.ipk Exampleapp]
        Tested on: SHR-Unstable,Om2009T5


        Application Updates

        System boot.png Exampleapp 0.0.1

        Exampleapp 0.0.1 is an application to do some stuff..


        Homepage: http://wiki.openmoko.org/
        Package: [http:// www.some.srv/path_to/Exampleapp.ipk Exampleapp]
        Tested on: SHR-Unstable,Om2009T5


        SpojeguiV4.png SpojeGUI

        SpojeGUI is GUI program which use CLI program/modul spoje.py which is used mainly for Czech and Slovak transport.

        • Save confing and link to DB.


        Homepage: http://www.multi.mluv.cz/programovani/spojegui.html
        Package: SpojeGUI
        Tested on: SHR-Testing


        Podboy.png Podboy 1.2.0

        Podboy is a podcast aggregator/player written in Python/Elementary. Its interface aims to be easy and finger friendly. It uses Feedparser Python module for download/parsing of podcast feeds, Gstreamer for playing of episodes and SQLite for storing data. Changes since version 1.0.0:

        • New feature: possibility to show details of episodes before to play them via a new entry "Show Details" in the menu "Actions" of pages "Episodes" and "Downloads".
        • New feature: update only the selected podcast in page "Downloads".
        • New feature: episodes can now be tagged as "Ignore" in page "Downloads". All episodes with status "ignore" will be skip when the downloading of all episodes of a podcast will be requested.
        • New feature: unplayed episodes can now be identified by a yellow star. Unplayed/played status of episodes can be manually toggled via a new entry "Toggle Played Status" in the menu "Actions" of page "Episodes".
        • New feature: import of podcasts via an OPML file (new button "Import" in the page "Podcasts")
        • Fixed occasionnaly incorrect display size of podcasts covers.


        Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/podboy/
        Package: podboy_1.2.0-r0_all.ipk
        Tested on: SHR-Unstable


        Community

        Most important and change making mails on the mailing lists, blogs etc.. Coolest hacks, screenshots, themes etc..

        • Harald Welte is planning to create a GSM development board based on 100% open hardware design and 100% free software. The initial focus is to create a board that behaves like a GSM cellphone. This could be interesting for the gta02-core project.

        Event News